Noun, : immense silos topped with steel igloos. From Dictionary.com.
Storms make an iglu feel more substantial somehow. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Consumption by Kevin Patterson] Reference
Taliriktug and his wife went back to their guests 'iglu, where she nursed the baby and he thought about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
As a girl she had not been this restless, waiting out storms with her parents on the land in a little iglu, drinking sweet tea and lying on caribou skins. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Consumption by Kevin Patterson] Reference
Months earlier, when he and Silence had come to the iglu village so that she could have the help of the women during the birth of Raven, he had not been surprised to learn that the Real People Inuktitut name of his wife was Silna. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
In addition, the Inuit pattern of winter settlement across much of Nunavut changed from the land to the sea ice and the Thule Culture Classic Stage semisubterranean whalebone and boulder house was abandoned in many areas for the snow igliuk or iglu. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut] Reference
On the Yukon we find the subterranean dwelling, while the Eskimo had both the subterranean house and the dome-shaped iglu, built of blocks of hardened snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Reliance wood "as opposed to what they were before which was a" collection of temporary makeshift huts and iglu ". From Wordnik.com. [badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books] Reference
"uskatahomen" igloo from the Canadian Inuit "iglu," house. From Wordnik.com. [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference
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